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Drug lords in Guatemala are burning down forests the size of Manhattan for cocaine-smuggling planes
Drug traffickers burning down Guatemalan forest to make clandestine landing strips for planes carrying US-bound cocaine have razed an area twice the size of Manhattan this year, officials say. The Central American country has declared a state of emergency over the fires ravaging its forests, which have hit hardest along its northern border with Mexico and Belize -- prime territory for drug gangs. The region, known as Peten, is known for the riches lying in its forests...
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You know what would end all of this immediately with the least bloodshed? Legalizing drugs in the US.
Of course there are all sorts of problems with this. Pharma companies would lose the profits from selling drugs that have the same effect but cost a lot more. For-profit prisons would lose their main source of income. Conservative politicians would lose two of their biggest straw men (dealers and addicts). It would be a scandal!